Hatching Duckling Bento

3. August 2009, 10:21 UhrAnimal Theme, Bento, Bento Preparation, Speedy Bentoshoppingmum6 comments

I fixed some dark soy-sauced pork cubes and noodles today, and packed some for my kids. The noodles were seasoned with the sauce from the dish so that they are not tasteless. It’s something like “gan lao mian”, but with pork cubes. I prepared 2 hard boiled quail eggs for decoration too.


I cut a zigzag line on the quail egg with this tool.

 

I found that one of my quail eggs could not fit into the round hole of the tool, or maybe my quail eggs here are slightly bigger? :P If you don’t have this quail egg cutter, just use a knife to cut some zigzag lines on the egg to separate the white from the yolk.


You might need to wet the yolk with water and slightly reform it if it’s not round after the cut.

 


Add a beak (cut from carrot) and eyes to the duckling.

 


Then, gently cover back the egg white on the yolk.

 

The quail egg looks like a little chick too, as you may have seen in a few Japanese bento blogs. But today, I shall name mine as a “hatching duckling”, just like that cute duckling pick shown in the photo.

So, here are the bentos, with noodles, pork cubes, longan and baby carrots:


My boy’s bento.

 


And the smaller bento is for my gal.

 

 An important note: Try not to make a deep cut on the quail egg, when you are cutting the zigzag line to avoid smashing the egg. Give it a try ya? :)

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6 comments:

  1. Twins Mama, 3. August 2009, 11:26

    Hi, very nice bento. Can you please let me know where can I buy the “cutting tool”?
    I want to try them for my twins.
    Thank you & I enjoy reading your blogs ^_^

     
  2. Vanessa, 3. August 2009, 12:49

    Shoppingmum, thanks for sharing ur tips, all the tips u shared out are really useful to me :)

     
  3. Wena, 3. August 2009, 12:54

    Hee hee, your egg episode was similar to my egg episode.

    My Granny said that I put the fire too hot. >.< Haha!

    BTW, I ate flower salad today. Now that was interesting and raised a lot of eyebrows. !!!

     
  4. shoppingmum, 3. August 2009, 14:15

    Twins Mama, thanks for your comment. :) I got the quail egg cutters from bentomarket.com. :)

    Vanessa, you are welcome.

    Wena, I saw your flower salad, and I must say, I admire your determination in dieting! You really la, all your bentos so healthy, except the panda biscuits thing la. LOL!

     
  5. ~Rachel~, 3. August 2009, 16:39

    These hatching duckling bentos look so lovely.. it need some hard work to work on the quail egg right? you are so creative..^_^

     
  6. Ellena, 4. August 2009, 9:17

    Tis is a very lovely bento….especially those cute little quail eggs…..:)